Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Azure 594 477 430
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 7.21% 14.28% 9.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 44.86% 54.02% 41.67%
Number of salaries quoted 449 363 286
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £30,063
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £75,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,324 883 1,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 16.06% 26.43% 23.25%
Number of salaries quoted 957 641 587
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,750 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £61,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £79,250
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% +2.36%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire 0 211 £60,000 +9.09% 119
Essex -4 129 £40,000 - 54
Cambridgeshire -19 119 £55,000 +44.74% 125
Suffolk +31 63 £45,000 -10.00% 41
Norfolk -2 45 £51,250 +2.50% 31
Bedfordshire -19 26 £39,000 +14.71% 35
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 105 (17.68%) SharePoint
2 52 (8.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.85%) WordPress
4 3 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.51%) IIS
4 3 (0.51%) SAS
5 2 (0.34%) Confluence
5 2 (0.34%) Luigi
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.17%) CMS
6 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 34 (5.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.51%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.34%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.34%) Towers Watson Igloo
3 1 (0.17%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 201 (33.84%) Microsoft 365
2 118 (19.87%) Entra ID
3 75 (12.63%) Power Platform
4 74 (12.46%) Azure DevOps
5 69 (11.62%) AWS
6 64 (10.77%) Azure AI
7 63 (10.61%) OneDrive
8 31 (5.22%) Power Automate
8 31 (5.22%) PowerApps
9 26 (4.38%) GitHub
10 25 (4.21%) Azure Service Bus
11 24 (4.04%) Azure Logic Apps
12 22 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
13 21 (3.54%) Azure Data Factory
14 20 (3.37%) GCP
15 18 (3.03%) SaaS
16 17 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 16 (2.69%) GitHub Copilot
17 16 (2.69%) Microsoft Copilot
18 12 (2.02%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 77 (12.96%) Firewall
2 66 (11.11%) DNS
3 52 (8.75%) DHCP
3 52 (8.75%) VPN
4 39 (6.57%) TCP/IP
5 18 (3.03%) MQTT
5 18 (3.03%) Wireless
6 12 (2.02%) Network Security
6 12 (2.02%) VLAN
6 12 (2.02%) WAN
7 11 (1.85%) Internet
7 11 (1.85%) LAN
7 11 (1.85%) VoIP
8 8 (1.35%) PBX
9 7 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.67%) DMZ
10 4 (0.67%) Structured Cabling
11 2 (0.34%) Broadband
11 2 (0.34%) IP Telephony
11 2 (0.34%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (16.16%) Azure SQL Database
2 56 (9.43%) MongoDB
3 54 (9.09%) Power BI
4 27 (4.55%) SQL Server
5 23 (3.87%) Elasticsearch
6 17 (2.86%) Tableau
7 13 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (1.85%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.67%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.67%) MySQL
11 3 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.34%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.34%) Big Data
12 2 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
12 2 (0.34%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.34%) Metadata
12 2 (0.34%) Redis
12 2 (0.34%) Spatial Data
13 1 (0.17%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 23 (3.87%) Git
2 11 (1.85%) JIRA
3 5 (0.84%) Selenium
3 5 (0.84%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.51%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.51%) git-flow
4 3 (0.51%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.34%) GitLab
5 2 (0.34%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.34%) Yeoman
6 1 (0.17%) ERwin
6 1 (0.17%) JMeter
6 1 (0.17%) Postman
6 1 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.17%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.17%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 246 (41.41%) Social Skills
2 58 (9.76%) Finance
3 28 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (2.36%) Legal
5 13 (2.19%) Law
5 13 (2.19%) Marketing
5 13 (2.19%) Retail
6 12 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (2.02%) Public Sector
7 9 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (1.52%) Games
7 9 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (1.01%) Advertising
8 6 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (0.84%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.67%) Aviation
10 4 (0.67%) Music Industry
11 3 (0.51%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.51%) Banking
12 2 (0.34%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 145 (24.41%) Developer
2 109 (18.35%) IT Support
3 82 (13.80%) .NET Developer
4 78 (13.13%) Analyst
4 78 (13.13%) Support Engineer
5 75 (12.63%) IT Engineer
6 67 (11.28%) Senior
7 64 (10.77%) IT Support Engineer
8 42 (7.07%) Junior
9 38 (6.40%) Junior Analyst
10 35 (5.89%) Lead
11 30 (5.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 30 (5.05%) Senior Developer
12 28 (4.71%) Consultant
13 27 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
14 26 (4.38%) Graduate
15 25 (4.21%) Network Engineer
16 24 (4.04%) Support Analyst
17 23 (3.87%) 2nd Line Support
18 22 (3.70%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (19.53%) .NET
2 92 (15.49%) .NET Core
3 77 (12.96%) ASP.NET
3 77 (12.96%) ASP.NET Core
4 60 (10.10%) RESTful
5 52 (8.75%) CSS
6 49 (8.25%) HTML
7 35 (5.89%) Entity Framework
8 34 (5.72%) React
9 30 (5.05%) ML.NET
10 29 (4.88%) Blazor
11 27 (4.55%) Node.js
12 23 (3.87%) Terraform
13 22 (3.70%) AngularJS
14 21 (3.54%) ASP.NET Web API
14 21 (3.54%) FastAPI
15 20 (3.37%) Vue
16 19 (3.20%) Kafka
16 19 (3.20%) RabbitMQ
17 18 (3.03%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 40 (6.73%) Driving Licence
2 38 (6.40%) Onboarding
3 32 (5.39%) Cloud Native
4 16 (2.69%) Cyberattack
5 15 (2.53%) Management Information System
6 14 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (2.02%) Security Posture
8 11 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
8 11 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.18%) CCTV
11 7 (1.18%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.18%) iPhone
11 7 (1.18%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.01%) Digital TV
12 6 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.01%) Product Ownership
13 5 (0.84%) Legacy Code
13 5 (0.84%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 154 (25.93%) Windows
2 86 (14.48%) Windows Server
3 14 (2.36%) Linux
3 14 (2.36%) Windows Server 2019
4 12 (2.02%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.85%) Android
5 11 (1.85%) Mac OS
5 11 (1.85%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.34%) Unix
6 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (20.54%) AI
2 118 (19.87%) Agile
3 106 (17.85%) Cybersecurity
4 98 (16.50%) DevOps
5 90 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
6 84 (14.14%) Mentoring
7 80 (13.47%) CI/CD
7 80 (13.47%) Continuous Improvement
7 80 (13.47%) Full-Stack Development
8 60 (10.10%) Business Intelligence
9 55 (9.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 53 (8.92%) Machine Learning
11 42 (7.07%) Roadmaps
12 41 (6.90%) Cloud Security
12 41 (6.90%) Service Delivery
13 39 (6.57%) Containerisation
14 37 (6.23%) ITIL
14 37 (6.23%) Migration
15 36 (6.06%) Customer Service
15 36 (6.06%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 182 (30.64%) SQL
2 140 (23.57%) C#
3 89 (14.98%) Python
4 54 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 51 (8.59%) JavaScript
6 39 (6.57%) TypeScript
7 17 (2.86%) PHP
8 12 (2.02%) C++
9 8 (1.35%) Bicep
9 8 (1.35%) Java
10 7 (1.18%) Rust
11 6 (1.01%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.67%) Bash
13 3 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.51%) Ruby
13 3 (0.51%) Scala
14 2 (0.34%) Go
15 1 (0.17%) R
15 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.17%) VB
Qualifications
1 108 (18.18%) Azure Certification
2 75 (12.63%) Degree
3 31 (5.22%) Cisco Certification
4 29 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 25 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (3.87%) CompTIA Security+
7 22 (3.70%) CCNA
8 19 (3.20%) Network+ Certification
9 16 (2.69%) CEH
9 16 (2.69%) CompTIA CySA+
10 14 (2.36%) Security Cleared
11 10 (1.68%) DBS Check
12 9 (1.52%) CCNP
13 8 (1.35%) DV Cleared
13 8 (1.35%) SC Cleared
14 6 (1.01%) CISSP
15 5 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 4 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
17 3 (0.51%) A+ Certification
17 3 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.22%) QA
2 25 (4.21%) GDPR
2 25 (4.21%) SLA
3 22 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (3.37%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.36%) NIST
6 13 (2.19%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (1.35%) NCSC
8 7 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (1.01%) Accessibility
9 6 (1.01%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.84%) GRC
10 5 (0.84%) JSP 440
11 4 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 4 (0.67%) PMO
12 3 (0.51%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.17%) HL7
13 1 (0.17%) IFRS
13 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 140 (23.57%) Active Directory
2 42 (7.07%) Docker
3 37 (6.23%) Hyper-V
4 29 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 80 (13.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (7.24%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.18%) SCCM
4 4 (0.67%) Ansible
5 3 (0.51%) Proxmox
5 3 (0.51%) ZABBIX
6 2 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.17%) Grafana
7 1 (0.17%) Nessus
7 1 (0.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 411 (69.19%) Microsoft
2 48 (8.08%) ForeScout
3 42 (7.07%) Cisco
4 34 (5.72%) VMware
5 26 (4.38%) Apple
6 21 (3.54%) Google
7 13 (2.19%) Facebook
7 13 (2.19%) Meraki
8 12 (2.02%) Adobe
8 12 (2.02%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.68%) Ubiquiti
10 8 (1.35%) Veeam
11 7 (1.18%) Fortinet
11 7 (1.18%) SonicWALL
12 6 (1.01%) Databricks
13 5 (0.84%) Sony
13 5 (0.84%) Yahoo!
14 4 (0.67%) Citrix
14 4 (0.67%) Draytek
14 4 (0.67%) Sophos